Dublin, NH
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silverquill
N 42° 53.427 W 072° 00.337
18T E 744508 N 4753000
Dublin, NH, is a small village that dates its origins to 1752. The Town was chartered in 1771 under the name of Dublin, but there is no record of why that name was chosen.
Waymark Code: WM1DJ3
Location: New Hampshire, United States
Date Posted: 04/13/2007
Views: 46
The Town dates its founding to 1752, when William Thornton built and occupied a cabin just this side of the Peterborough line, on the edge of what is now the McDowell reservoir. Thornton, however, left after a year or two, and the first permanent settlers, all descendants of Ulster Protestants, arrived some time after 1760.
By 1775, the Town had settled a minister, started work on a meetinghouse, and made provision for schools. There were 305 people in town that year. By 1800 there were over a thousand.
The Town was chartered in 1771 under the name of Dublin, but there is no record of why that name was chosen. There is speculation that one of the first settlers, Richard Strongman, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, but nobody knows for sure.
It is perhaps best know today as the home of Yankee Publishing, the publishers of the Farmers Almanac and Yankee Magazine.
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